• (British) IPA: /ˈkɒn.kleɪv/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkɑn.kleɪv/

conclave (plural conclaves)

1. The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
2. The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.

   • It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.

3. A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
   • 1881, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Johnson,_Samuel Samuel Johnson]”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:

     The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.

• clave
• clavis

• French: conclave
• German: Konklave

• French: conclave
• German: Konklave
• Italian: conclave
• Russian: конкла́в
• Spanish: cónclave

• German: Klausurtagung, Klausur
• Spanish: cónclave